Paint Audio MIDI Captain ONE MIDI Foot Controller Multi-Effects Keyboards Synthesizer USB-MIDI DAW DSP Software USB-HID Support Multi-state Switch Cycling (MIDI Captain ONE)

I installed this for talkback control on an older UAD interface setup, without an actual integral talkback microphone, muting an unused microphone input that has been pressed into service as talkback. I prefer it on the desktop but it seems rugged enough for foot operation. Setup is simple enough and works without a hitch to control UA MIDI Control by Radu Varga, as well as anything MIDI, as I tested a few things.

I used this to program RHYTHM S/P and VARIATION on my Boss RC-5 looper / rhythm pedal. Works great. I made sure to program a 127 and a 0 send on CC 80 and 81.You edit the controls by connecting it to your computer and editing some text files. It’s relatively straightforward and there are a lot of examples provided.The buttons work great and I assume they’ll be durable.I used the Boss BMIDI-2-35 cable to connect this pedal to my Boss RC-5. Everything works great.I’m looking forward to experimenting with other programs on this, as it supports 4 separate programs that you can toggle between. Honestly I’m likely to try one of the larger pedals as well and see what craziness I can come up with. It’s a versatile platform.Well done Paint Audio.

Original Title: MIDI CC commands do not work, support non-existent.Original Review: MIDI CC commands do not work as expected. It only processes the first 2 "like" CCs, for example CC-69 to move DMX lights scenes up. Then on the 3rd command it fails, it does not send a message. The same thing in the opposite direction (stepping downward through light-scenes).I bought both the Captain ONE and the Captain TWO. Both have the same problem.I've contacted support various times (2 weeks apart) and have never received a response.Updated Review (a week after submitting above review): Changed rating to 4-star. I finally heard from support, about 4 weeks after my initial inquiry (and 2 other inquiries about 2 weeks apart). A combination of firmware update/redo and a troubleshooting guide helped solve my issue. The item is performing well now. The foot-switch mechanism seems well-built (solid) and responds quickly. I would have changed the rating to 5-stars if support were quicker.

I thought this pedal would be a simple solution for triggering my drum machine with just a click. Although it seems to have this potential, unfortunately there are no instructions provided, no website with instructions and no customer support available. You do get a wiring schematic that may be useful to an engineer-level midi user, but for me, I just needed to be able to step on the pedal to trigger the machine, then again to stop it. Seems simple enough, right? Nope. Impossible to figure out and no instructions whatsoever. I emailed customer support. No response after 10 days, so returning it and looking for another solution. Horrible product.

The reviews saying that there's no documentation online are wrong. Go to the Paint Audio web site; there are full manuals there. The one you want is the "SuperMode User Guide". It's not always 100% clear, but it's not hard to figure out. It has full information on how to configure all of the MIDI Captain models.If there's something complicated that you want to do with this pedal, it's probably a good idea to read the manual before you buy it. It's extremely configurable, but it does have some limitations. (Unless you want to reverse-engineer the firmware, which is actually written in Python, but only provided as pre-compiled .mpy files, for which there doesn't seem to be a decompiler. But I believe some people have worked on it and shared what they learned online.)The box includes a USB A-to-C cable and a MIDI cable. I would have preferred that the MIDI cable have a right angle connector on one end, since the MIDI Out connector is on the side of the pedal, but honestly I wasn't expecting a cable at all.It can be powered through USB or a typical 5.5mm barrel connector, which apparently can handle anything from 5 to 12 volts, in either polarity. My multi-effects pedal's power supply (12v, 3A, center positive) works fine, although for some reason it takes longer to power on than with USB.You can't really see it in the marketing images, but the display in the center is a blue 3-digit numeric display. When pressing a foot switch sends a Program Change message, it flashes "PC" briefly, then shows the program number. I assume it shows other things if it sends e.g. a Controller Change or other types of messages. There doesn't seem to be a way to configure the display to act differently.Each of the 2 foot switches is surrounded by 3 RGB LEDs, which are all independently controllable.Out of the box, the DUO is configured to step through MIDI program change messages. The lower button increases the program number, and the upper button decreases it. All by itself, this handles the first problem I wanted to solve: an effects processor (Headrush MX5) that doesn't support any kind of patch number increment or decrement messages, just program changes. In the future I'll very likely want to configure the DUO to send program changes in non-sequential order, which looks pretty easy as long as you don't need a sequence of more than 9.There are also other modes pre-configured, which you can select with the DIP switches on the side. They look like they're designed to demonstrate functionality, rather than to be useful right away.The way you configure it is by writing text files on a computer and uploading them over USB. I'm not crazy about the configuration language, but it doesn't seem hard to use. There are two separate text files, one for each foot switch, and within each of those files, you can separately program the four different modes, which are selectable by the DIP switches on the side (a separate pair of switches for each foot switch). To me it would have made more sense to have just one pair of DIP switches, so the foot switches would never be in two different modes, and have a separate text file for each mode, which would specify the behavior of both buttons for that mode. In fact it seems like the larger MIDI Captain models work more like that.

I needed something small to put on my pedal board to control my bass whammy pedal mode. With a little bit of poking around on the computer you can easily figure out how to use this. It’s basically an infinitely programmable midi switch with different modes and functions. All you have to do is edit the TXT file in on the computer by holding the stomp switch down and plugging it in. It has a bunch of cool random and sequential options that let you infinitely expand the code in the file to as many presses in sequence as you want. It really does a whole lot for a $50 device.I would highly recommend this to someone who needs something simple to control a specific pedal or even launch/stop tracks on your computer.

The media could not be loaded. Super useful with the Quad Cortex. I can switch gig view on and off and also toggle between scene and stomp. You have to rewrite the text files while plugging this into the computer with the correct commands taken from the QC manual.